Features

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  Miami Township Board of Trustees broach full-time admin position

  
  
  

  At its regular meeting Monday, Sept. 21, the Miami Township Board of Trustees gave a first reading to a resolution that would expand Zoning Administrator Bryan Lucas’ current half-time position into a full-time township administrator/zoning position.

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  YS Hack to circle up at Antioch College

  
  
  

  On Saturday, Oct. 3, YS Hack — a group dedicated to bringing people together to play hacky sack — will celebrate its fifth anniversary as an organization at its second annual “Hack Day.” The day-long event is will be staged at Antioch College, with hackers to gather on the campus “horseshoe” from 2–9 p.m.

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  ‘Endangered and Extinct’— The analog, archived

  
  
  

  “Endangered and Extinct” lives somewhere within the overlap between what’s disappeared or disappearing and what’s still hanging on. Stephen Rumbaugh, a Yellow Springs-based graphic designer and conceptual artist, has filled the newly named Dr. Bob Brandt Jr. Event Space at WYSO with 28 such “specimens,” on display now through Nov. 30.

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  News from the Past: September 2026

  
  
  

  Contributing writer Don Hollister dove into the YS News archives to uncover past articles and more in his most recent installment of his News from the Past column.

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  More screenings, more venues— Yellow Springs Film Fest to return

  
  
  

  Set for Wednesday, Sept. 30 through Sunday, Oct. 4, the YS Film Fest’s nearly 30 events, programs  and films will take place on stages and screens across the village — at Antioch College’s Foundry Theater, Little Art Theatre, briefly on a closed-down Short Street and, new this year, 91.3 WYSO’s Union Schoolhouse. 

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  Holly Near’s half-century of ‘singing for our lives’

  
  
  

  “An Evening with Holly Near” begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at the Foundry Theater. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $5 for students.

Village Council

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  Village Council votes to accept Burns’ resignation, agreements